Playworkers - 2 posts

Ashleigh Primary School and Nursery, Wymondham, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0HL

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  20 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £13.05 per hour

Playworkers - 2 posts job summary

Based at Ashleigh Treehouse

Tel: 01953 602410

Email: office@ashleigh.norfolk.sch.uk

Website: www.ashleighprimary.com 

Headteacher: Mr John McConnell

• Salary – Grade C4, £13.05 per hour
• Permanent
• Part Time
• Term Time only
• Post 1 – Breakfast Club – 5 hrs/wk (M-F), £2,827 actual pa
• Post 2 – After School Club – 12.5 hrs/wk (M-F) £7,067 actual pa

Are we looking for you? Are you enthusiastic, determined and motivated?  Do you have high expectations of yourself and everyone you work with? Our school is an exciting and rewarding place to work. You will be:

• Experienced working with children of primary school age;
• A reflective person who is always seeking to improve; 
• Good at building relationships with pupils, parents, staff; 
• Positive and able to embrace change;
• Proactive and able to manage work load.

We can offer: 

• A caring, welcoming school that values everyone;
• The chance to be part of a highly supportive and highly skilled staff team;
• Delightful children and a supportive community;
• A commitment to continuing professional development;
• The chance to be part of an amazing school with huge ambitions for the future.

Hours of work – Breakfast Club Playworker, 5 hours per week (plus scope for additional supply cover at After School Club), 7.30-8.30am and After School Club Playworker, 12.5 hours per week, 3.00-5.30pm, both Monday to Friday, Term Time only.

How to apply

A job description is available from ‘Attachments’. To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button. Alternatively, these are available from the school office.

If you would be interested in applying for both positions, you would only need to complete one application form.

Please email a completed application form to - office@ashleigh.norfolk.sch.uk  

 

Closing date:  3 November, 9am

Interview date:  TBC

 

Ashleigh Primary School and Nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and wellbeing of all children and expects all volunteers and staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. 

The successful applicant will also be required to complete a declaration form under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations. 

The successful applicant will also be required to complete a declaration form under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Ashleigh Primary School and Nursery, Wymondham

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 473 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ashleigh Primary School and Nursery, Wymondham website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ashleigh-primary-school-and-nursery-wymondham

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